they feel like they re in limbo right now. they have some huge issues. transportation. these school districts, rural school districts, can t go out and acquire twice the number of buses that they have if they were going to socially distance kids on the bus. that s what they would have to do. they re waiting for something from the state health department on that. lunches. you can t keep your mask on when you re eating your lunch, and last year the kids ate in their classroom. we are concerned. the superintendent and i are concerned about the delta variant. we are hearing stories out of england that it is ripping through schools over there and we re concerned about that when it comes to the fall. reporter: and, you know, yasmin to your point about how these kids are doing, even though most of these kaszs the kids are being monitored and they have mild symptoms, there are still a few cases where the symptoms are more severe and there have been in very rare circumstances deaths reporte
powerful. so they get this powerful form of heroin and in some kaszs if you were to overdose and the paramedics rushed to you and using this certain kind of drug that s saving people. it s a drug that s been a movement lately in many states to try to make this more widely available. but basically it s an antidote. so even someone who stopped breathing, if they get this narcan, it can reverse the heroin out of the receptors and brain and makes someone able to start breathing again. it can be quite effective. we have seen it at work in various places. that s what hay would get in an ambulance or emergency room or from the individuals themselves. so if we re talking about this particular. strain of hollywood heroin and the deaths in massachusetts, you
let me bring in justin. justin, you wrote this article. it says the headline walter scott s killing is every black nightmare about white cops. i just want to point out that the newspaper, the post courier when looking at the department history says they ve got 433 sworn officers they fought off accusations in the past according to the post and courier and say predominantly african-american skmunts. the newspaper reports that in september 18% of the officers were black while the city s population 45% as in the case with ferguson a history of african-americans in the community and minorities and in many kaszs poor people feeling that they were targeted unnecessarily by police officers. yeah. i wasn t aware of those statistics, but it doesn t really, i guess, come as a surprise considering what we ve learned, i guess, from ferguson.
shrinking budgets slowed or stopped kindergarten programs. as a result, many 3-year-old and 4-year-olds aren t going to pre-school and they should be. a poor child who hasn t gone to a quality preschool enters kindergarten behind. children of the wealthiest families are at the top. those lines trend down as you go down the economic ladder. what s worse? many never catch up. research shows they need special education services and drop out. science tells us we have to invest in kids early. the math, local and state levels say kurt, cut, cut. a senior associate dean at school of continuing studies, sam is a former new york city schoolteacher. welcome to both of you this morning. thank you. chris, let s start with politics. how would governor romney improve education for those who can t afford preschools to close the gap? i think he would do a couple things. i don t think the issue really is how much money, i think the issue is, is the money being used appropriately? we l
also this week s medical mystery. something we do every night could be making us gain weight. i ll tell you about it. let s get started. doctors may have unlocked a big secret which would help patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer. i s called glioblastoma. about 10,000 new kaszs in the united states every year. it s the same type of cancer that took the life of senator ted kennedy. there s a new vaccine out there that nearly doubled the survival time. double. think about that. it s extra time. it s what the patient you are about to meet, every patient, really, is fighting for. you volunteered to do a spinal tap today for us? yes. she s bracing for another painful procedure.